Welcome to the magical place where 404 NaNoWriMo authors have committed to following one another’s blog and social media accounts. Get ready for some serious hopping, because the Nano Blog & Social Media Hop has begun.

Phew! Just finished the Pinterest hop… Got lost in the black hole for hours! Found tons of new images for my boards 🙂 Though I followed almost everyone, I couldn’t follow people who didn’t create boards or pin anything 😦

Hi! I did the first batch of Facebook likes last night and just now was notified that Facebook is blocking me from liking more pages until December 13th 😦 Suggest to others to break the Facebook hop into more chunks . . .

Ugh! I forgot that I had liked a few pages earlier in the day and I exceeded my Facebook limit. I received a notice that I am banned from liking until 556pm on DECEMBER 13th!!! A whole week! I will catch up on all of them at that time. I didn’t make it to the first bolded person, even.

Quickly did the Google+ part of the hop. Please people: fill in your author bios and attach a picture for your profile so others can recognise you. I didn’t follow those who had an entirely blank bio section and post section – you won’t know who you’re following that way.
Anyhow, those of you who left the post section bare: you’re missing out on great SEO. Just paste the links from your blog posts to create posts on Google+. Google will pick them up and drive more traffic to your blog. (My experience anyway…)

Not everyone has had time to get all their social media profiles up to snuff including myself. I encourage everyone to follow everyone, because I promised people they could sign up with their profiles now and get them up to snuff later.

Question for you: I never sign up for email from blogs because I strongly dislike clogging up my inbox and never get to it anyway. For the people who aren’t on wordpress, is it acceptable to add them on feedly and follow that way? That’s how I follow all non-wordpress blogs currently and works really well for me.

You can’t follow everyone via feedly unfortunately. The intention is for everyone to follow everyone. If you don’t feel comfortable participating, please let me know so I can remove your link from the blog portion of the Hop so that it’s fair to the other participants. It also means you may miss out on winning prizes unfortunately. Let me know! 🙂

I am enjoying this for many reasons. I’ve already bought one book (Russian? Firebird? Fantasy? Oh hell yeah!) And I’m seeing a lot of things I don’t personally like (this is in terms of web design) so I am making a mental list of what needs to be changed on my own site. 😀

Hi Monissa! I’m so sorry, but I checked our emails, and I didn’t hear back from you by the deadline I had given to everyone for adding email signups to blogs/websites. As you can see, I needed to know where your signup was located, because I provide instructions on how to find the signup for each blog/website. It looks like you’re only in the Twitter section of the Hop, but I hope you get oodles of followers on it. 🙂 I can’t add anyone into the Hop now, because it’s a tonne of work. Probably an hour for any change, because of all the reformatting.

Hello, wanted to thank you for organizing all of this, and also mention that I gave you the wrong blog url of ebenezerlux.com. The one I’m going through and following people with is laboratorylux.wordpress.com. I’m really sorry for the inconvenience.

*waving excitedly at everyone* I just finished the blog hop! I’m not sure if all my email subscriptions went through, though – not all of them said “success, see confirmation email” or something like that. Hope they all made it through 🙂 And no, I’m not a robot 😉

I liked all the Facebook pages as my author page. I use my personal profile for family and friends, so I’m happy with it that way. It didn’t block me or anything and I was able to finish it in a few days.

Well done Raimey for putting this lot together – what a marathon effort. Just want to say thanks to everyone who’s already likeing and sharing … I’m a way off that yet, just want to get everyone followed first, but I will catch up!

Hi Raimey – this is pretty awesome – learning so much from other blogs and pages! One weird thing I’ve noticed is that if someone uses blogger, and I try to follow them, it automatically defaults to using my gmail account, which is pretty unused and defunct. Is there a way to override this to direct it to the email address I actually use? Thanks!

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I’m a Canadian crime fiction author, and I’m currently on submission with my agent. My thriller The Alibi Scheme was shortlisted for the Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award, and my mystery The Bias of Rain was a finalist for a Daphne du Maurier Award. I’m also a marketing and fundraising consultant as well as an aspiring Zumba champ and amateur kombucha brewer. While I don’t write under a pseudonym, I sometimes volunteer under one; let’s just say that on certain organic farms, there’s a gal known as Radish Runner, and if the wind hits the brim of her hat at just the right angle, you might even catch a glimpse of her. I live and write on traditional and unceded First Nations and Inuit lands as well as Métis homelands, and this statement alone doesn’t make that okay. She/her/they/them.